FL-Sen: Katherine Harris too religious for Religious Right
Florida Republican Senate candidate Katherine Harris–the Secretary of State that certified the state for Bush in the 2000 debacle–is embarrassing religious conservatives…for being too religious:
“If you’re not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to legislate sin…we have to have the faithful in government [because that is God's will. Separating religion and politics is] so wrong because God is the one who chooses our rulers. And if we are the ones not actively involved in electing those godly men and women, we’re going to have a nation of secular laws. That’s not what our Founding Fathers intended, and that certainly isn’t what God intended.”
The Religious Right is recoiling from her remarks:
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) said she was “disgusted” by the comments “and deeply disappointed in Representative Harris personally.”
Harris, Wasserman Schultz said, “clearly shows that she does not deserve to be a representative.”
Ruby Brooks, a veteran Tampa Bay Republican activist, said Harris’s remarks “were offensive to me as a Christian and a Republican.”
“This notion that you’ve been chosen or anointed, it’s offensive,” Brooks said. “We hurt our cause with that more than we help it.”
I don’t understand why these religious conservatives are so up in arms over what this crazy old bat is saying. At least she has the guts to show the Religious Right’s true colors and say aloud what they all believe but keep to themselves. They all act like they’re the Anointed Ones and final arbiters of morality.
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[...] The headline may be early but the outcome is pre-ordained, in light of the fact that Republican Katherine Harris won the GOP primary for the right to challenge Nelson in November. She has, unfortunately for her, the proverbial snowball’s chance in hell of defeating him. From the campaign staff that continually fled from her, to her proclamation that there is no separation between church and state, to her caked on make up and horrendous fashion sense, Republicans had a better chance of electing a manatee than electing her. [...]
September 6, 2006, 9:35 am